OpenAI is quietly turning the Mac Codex app into an all-in-one platform Chat + Codex + OpenClaw, all under one roof.
- Foundation for rendering and reading images + video
- Heartbeat system (like OpenClaw)
- Model and thinking mode selection per task (like an OpenClaw agent manager)
- UI changes to make Codex less "for coders" and more universal
They're using the Codex app as the base and building everything on top of it.
It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and at the same time, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them.